Common Hawthorn Tree | Crataegus monogyna • Roots Plants

As far as we're concerned, the common hawthorn tree deserves a bit of a fancier name, because its visual impact is truly second-to-none!
Boasting elegant white (sometimes pink) blossoms, vivid red berries (known as haws) and attractive foliage that takes on golden hues come autumn, this thorny customer deserves a place in any garden.
Hawthorn berries can be used to make delicious jellies and tangy sauces (like haw-sin). You'll know the fruits are ripe when they become a little soft to touch.
The flowers typically grow in flat clusters, the foliage is deeply-lobed and the branches are covered with spiny thorns (giving the tree the second part of its common name).
Certified by the RHS as one of its Plants for Pollinators, the hawthorn tree supports a huge number (we're talking hundreds) of beneficial species, including bees, moths, fieldfares and dormice.